KEBIJAKAN DAN IMPLEMENTASI BANTUAN LUAR NEGERI AUSAID DI TIMOR LESTE: EVALUASI TERHADAP PROYEK DUKUNGAN RENCANA STRATEGIK SEKTOR KESEHATAN

Abstract

Background: The Ministry of Health of Timor-Leste has realized that they should work together with other stakeholders to achieve their vision and mission due to insufficient human resources and budget. Therefore, the Ministry of Health has established collaboration with AusAid and other development partners through mechanism of coordination. However, the mechanism is not yet implemented fully. Objective: To evaluate foreign aid policy in coordinating AusAid donor and development partners to fund human resource development program (in the HSSP-SP project) through the mechanism of coordination in the Ministry of Health of Timor-Leste. Method: This was a qualitative study with a case-study design. The respondents were 16 people, consisting of 13 persons from the Ministry of Health and 3 persons from AusAid, World Bank and development partners. Result and Discussion: The Department of Partnership Management had not been optimum in managing and controlling the project/program and activities of the donors and working partners. The approved action plan and budget were relevant with the proposal made by the Ministry of Health but planning for human resource development was unclear and was not based on the work force gap faced and priority in human resource development. The project had impact on human resource development but the process of staff re-placement was not in line with the principle of the right man on the right place. Regular consultative meeting could facilitate the approval of action plan and budget for human resource development. However, the mechanism of coordination was less effective because there was no specific instrument or mechanism to do alignment and harmonization and it only focused on collective gain and there was too much pressure and demand to staff from both the Ministry of Health and partners. Constraints and challenges from political aspect and human resource capacity had hampered the process of coordinating AusAid and working partners. Conclusion: The implementation of foreign aid policy to coordinate AusAid and development partners to fund human resource development (in HSSP-SP project) following the mechanism of coordination in the Ministry of Health of Timor-Leste had run well enough but still received lack of support from human resource development planning based on institutional development. Keywords: policy evaluation, mechanism of coordination, human resource development, donor agency